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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1889
Page
1
A collection of maxims on character wealth and life. It asserts true wealth is character and that competition drives life. It warns against restraint in education and laments fickle friendship while praising enthusiasm and decisive action.
A Atlantic Express editorial extols U S agricultural capacity to support a vast population. It argues America could feed 100 million more without more land by raising farming standards and exporting surplus. The piece compares Texas and France and touts U S dominance and future global influence rooted in opportunity and the pyramid motif.
An veteran athlete warns against excessive bathing for young athletes. He favors light sponge baths and gradual cooling after exertion, arguing that overwashing removes natural skin oils and can harm health. He notes Romans popularized bathing as a sign of decline.
A Louis Magazine excerpt urges immediate aid for sunstroke victims. If a person collapses on a hot day, check the chest by placing a hand to see if skin is cool. if so, not sunstroke. If skin is hot, carry the victim to a pump or bucketed cold water to restore consciousness.
Rev. Dr Talmage preaches from Nehemiah on building a gospel booth with olive pine and palm branches to symbolize peace with God peace with man evergreen health and usefulness. He urges urgent personal commitment to Christ and active Christian service amid worldly drift.
A St Nicholas article explains three rocket types. signals use twelve parts water two parts sulfur and three parts charcoal. Decorative rockets use 122 parts pulverized powder eighty parts niter forty sulfur and forty cast iron filings with a paper case and plaster top. It describes the fuse, pot, star shapes, serpents and marrows as decorations and the pine guide stick.
The study lists 1776 populations and 1880 to 1885 counts for New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia with estimated wealth and land areas. It notes booming southern lumbering post 1880 with 160 percent more saw mills, 107 percent more workers and 100 percent more capital.
Jan Street Arab exhausts ingenuity in devishie themes for fraudline. Unwary visitors and even Parisians fall prey. The exhibition draws crowds that become fertile ground for his schemes.
Tur Loxpon Times quotes cautious analysis suggesting Germany will hesitate before provoking a major power conflict. The piece notes that the world would consider eight or ten times before engaging in a contest with the United States, describing much of the war-cloud talk as nonsense.
In City Hall Park two boys about fourteen or fifteen lure bystanders with a pretend sky show then perform tumbling and tricks. They collect money after the act and may buy seats at a theatre. They also nab park seats at night by offering a half or five cents to departing couples. A New York Star account notes the clever schemes of these street hustlers and their modest earnings.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean chronicles historic calamities listing great earthquakes floods and fires in chronological order. It cites Naples Lisbon Japan Ragusa Sebamaki and other cities with death tolls ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands and notes devastating floods and fires including the London fire of 1212 and the great Chicago fire of 1871 with hundreds of lives lost.
Two California display cars opened at the Erie Railway station in Jersey City to show state products to Eastern visitors. Exhibits include dried fruits from a Chico ranch, a variety of wines, wool textiles, raw and manufactured cotton, and abundant fruit photos. A stereopticon lecture on California resources was also presented during the weeklong display.
A discoverer describes underwater viewing glasses that produce astonishing and delightful vision of objects about twenty feet away. The device uses two watch-plasses of three-quarters inch diameter joined back to back or with concavities outward to adjust focus.
The New York World outlines expert tips on swimming from Gus Sundstrom of the New York Athletic Club. It covers fear, floating, and several strokes including the breast stroke the Indian stroke and the English racing stroke with notes on form, speed, and safety.
Over the last two months Samoa has seen near peace between factions. Mataafa and Tamasese exchanged signals toward a lasting truce while awaiting Berlin Conference results. Mataafa hosted a large gathering for foreign residents and naval officers and thanked Admiral Kimberly for easing tensions as Tamaseses forces largely vacate their camps.
Sheep and lambs together in Great Britain show a year to year drop of 701,619 compared with earlier totals. The figures reveal a 2.6 percent decline for sheep and 2.9 percent for lambs, bringing the total to 25,257,149.
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